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Originally posted by Piano*Dad:
And how many has she already infected. Probably dozens. We've probably just got to get used to having another bug as part of daily life.

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Originally posted by LL:
Just announced...3 cities in ma have HS kids returning from threats in Italy areas. They are not allowed back in school until tested. 1 week ban.

Getting scary.

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New York has a second confirmed coronavirus case, Gov. Cuomo announced Tuesday.

The patient, a man who lives in New Rochelle, but works at a Manhattan law firm, was diagnosed with the disease spreading across the globe on Monday night.

So far, the coronavirus has killed six people in the U.S., all on the West Coast.

The 50-year-old man took himself to New York Presbyterian-Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville, Westchester County, after complaining of respiratory problems, but was transferred to a hospital in Manhattan, officials said.

“He is hospitalized and he is ill," Cuomo said. "But he has an underlying respiratory illness.”

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Three schools in New York have closed after word that a man from Westchester County has tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

The man's positive test result for COVID-19 prompted the closure of Westchester Day School in Mamaroneck, Westchester Torah Academy in White Plains, and the Salanter Akiba Riverdale (SAR) Academy in Riverdale, Bronx.

The man's child attends SAR Academy on 254th Street and that SAR High School a few blocks north on West 259th Street is also temporarily closed because the child may have had contact with other students.

The closures are being done as a precaution.

Both of these facilities are private Orthodox Jewish schools.

Two other schools, Westchester Day School in Mamaroneck and the Westchester Torah Academy in White Plains have also closed.

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A man in Westchester County has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that this appears to be the first "community spread" case of the illness in the state.

The New Rochelle man in his 50s with an underlying respiratory illness is hospitalized in serious condition at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia in Washington Heights .

Initial review of his travel does not suggest any direct connection to China or any country on the watch list. He did travel to Miami and Israel during the past few months, but not during the two week incubation period.

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BREAKING: I am announcing a new directive requiring NY health insurers to waive cost sharing associated with testing for #coronavirus, including emergency room, urgent care and office visits.

We can't let cost be a barrier to access to COVID-19 testing for any New Yorker.

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Twelve members of two Buffalo-area families who recently traveled back from Italy are quarantined in their homes as they are being tested for possible coronavirus infections, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said this morning.

Administration officials said six of the dozen family members are symptomatic and are being tested; precisely how ill those individuals are was uncertain Tuesday morning.

Also uncertain is when the state might have the test results finished for the families, though the federal government over the weekend approved a plan to have the state conduct testing for coronavirus. The state is also expanding testing sites to hospitals and other public and private labs. On Sunday, the state's first coronavirus case was revealed less than 12 hours after the woman, a 39-year-old Manhattan health care worker who had recently traveled to Iran, was tested.

The Erie County Health Department confirmed this morning that it is testing individuals in Erie County and following state and federal guidelines. "We will not be commenting on who or how many. There are no confirmed cases in our county at this time,'' said the health agency's spokesperson, Kara Kane.

The health agency later said the test specimens collected in Erie County are being sent to the Wadsworth Center, the state health department's lab in Albany. Local officials said those being tested recently traveled to Northern Italy, where there have a high number of coronavirus cases. A Johns Hopkins University coronavirus tracking system shows there are 2,036 confirmed virus cases, and 52 deaths, in Italy.

The specimens from Erie County were driven from Buffalo to Albany during the day Tuesday. Officials in Erie County are planning to address the media in Buffalo sometime Wednesday about the situation.